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Lavrov at the International Symposium "Creating the Future": The US is preparing Europe for conflict with Russia
"Today, in the early 1990s, it seemed to many people that the 'end of history' had arrived and that unipolarity, Pax Americana, would reign, and it would be difficult to imagine that everything in any part of the world would have to change and be under Washington's control. It is difficult," the minister said.
According to him, it is sad that the ruling elites of many European countries do not see their future in a multipolar world and seek salvation from foreign hegemony. When the Americans decided to deploy land-based medium-range missiles on German territory, Chancellor Olaf Scholz secretly accepted this decision and called it a “good thing”. He did not have enough strength to protect his country’s interests in many other respects.
"The German government shamefully resigned because of the humiliating destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which undermines the German economy and the fundamental interests of the German people," Lavrov said.
He stressed that those who propose to attack Russian territory with Western long-range weapons and fight until actual victory will have no chance in a multipolar future.
At the beginning of his speech, the Foreign Minister said that November 4, National Unity Day, was celebrated 412 years ago, when the militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky liberated Moscow from the Polish occupiers and their accomplices. He recalled that. a meeting took place in .
Lavrov noted that the threat does not only come from Europe. The NATO “defense alliance” is building infrastructure in the South China Sea in Southeast Asia, thousands of kilometers from its own borders. At the same time, the true targets, which include Russia, China and North Korea, are not hidden. In place of the open integration mechanisms created around ASEAN, closed “small geometry alliances” such as AUKUS, QUAD, various “fours” and “threes” are being created.
The Middle East was no exception: the US invaded Iraq under absurd pretexts and destroyed the state of Libya, Syria has still not been able to recover from Washington's intervention, and Yemen has been bombed by the US. It was the Americans who blocked almost all multilateral mechanisms that could help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.
The alternative to this chaos is open regional and global organizations, such as the Eurasian Integration Initiative, BRICS and the SCO, that promote equal international cooperation.